Eureka Symphony Spring Concert
The Eureka Symphony’s fourth concert of the 2014-2015 season on Friday and Saturday, April 17 & 18, at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts in Eureka offers music for the young and the young-at-heart. The program features this year’s winners of the Symphony’s Youth Competition performing with the full orchestra. First-prize winner 17-year old Carson McHaney will play an excerpt from Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto #2 in G minor, which starts with a simple violin melody related to traditional Russian folk music. Two 16-year-old pianists will also appear. Shirley Hu, an exchange student from China, will play a selection from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 13, and Arcatan Rachel Post will play a portion of Bach’s Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor. Director and Conductor Carol Jacobson has also chosen to perform local composer Michael Kibbe’s Aztec Fantasy and Robert Xavier Rodriguez’ The Dot & the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, with narrator Jacqueline Dandeneau. As a special treat, composer Kibbe himself will give the pre-concert Musical Notes lecture at 7 p.m. each night. The program concludes with the rousing Star Wars Finale by popular film composer John Williams. Renner Petroleum sponsors the concert. The Eureka Symphony invites parents and grandparents to bring their kids! Children 12 and under are FREE, with a paid adult. There is no limit to the number of children an adult can bring. Those buying adult tickets should call the Symphony box office at (707) 845-3655 to arrange the additional kids’ tickets. Reduced-price tickets at just $10 are also available one hour before curtain time for older young people with full-time student i.d. For more information, go to www.eurekasymphony.org, visit the Symphony on Facebook, or call the Symphony box office.
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$29
/ Free children 12 and under
/ $10 full-time students
/ $44 Loge
/ $39 Orchestra Main and Lower Balcony
/ $34 Orchestra Rear
